The former Labor senator’s party, to be announced this week, will aim to run in every state and have a broad policy agenda aimed at siphoning votes from across the political spectrum.
Former Labor senator Fatima Payman will move within days to set up a new political party with an agenda that aims to tap into middle Australia’s concerns about the cost of living.
The first-term senator, who resigned from the Labor Party in July after crossing the floor to support a Greens motion to recognise a Palestinian state, said in a press conference at the time to “watch this space” when asked about whether she would establish a political party. In September, Payman hired Glenn Druery – a political strategist known as the “preference whisperer” because of his record in helping micro and minor parties get elected to the Senate through preference deals – as her chief of staff.episode, said if anyone were to be elected or re-elected to the Senate, they needed a political party.
Jim Reed, who conducts the Resolve Political Monitor for this masthead, said the latest data, collected in July, showed Payman gained profile that month after defecting from Labor, but that she was rated negatively at a similar rate to people like Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce at that time.
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